The impact of tacit knowledge transfer through storytelling on nurses’ clinical decision making

Abstract EN

Background: Clinical Decision Making (CDM) is the foremost aspect of caring for patients.

Storytelling can enhance skills such as judging, and problem-solving among people, especially in clinical education environments.

Objectives: The current study aimed at investigating the impact of tacit knowledge transfer through storytelling onCDMby nurses.

Methods: The current quasi-experimental study was conducted on 61 nurses.

The participants were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned into experimental and control groups.

An eight-hour storytelling session was held for the experimental group, but not for the control group.

The assessment tool was the Jenkins’ CDM in nursing scale.

Results: The mean scores of CDM pre-intervention were 146.8012.68 and 138.4212.64 in the experimental and control groups, respectively (P = 0.012).

The mean scores of CDM post-intervention were 163.43 18.45 and 139.10 11.78 for the experimental and control groups, respectively (P < 0.001).

The gain scores were 28.7438.90 and 0.783.84 in the intervention and control groups, respectively.

The difference was statistically significant (P < 0.001).

Conclusions: The obtained results showed that the transfer of knowledge and experiences through storytelling significantly enhanced CDM score.